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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (100631)	2/26/2011 11:30:18 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

Recall And Let Go Posted 02/25/2011 08:39 PM ET Teacher Protests: Wisconsin public employees are skipping work and lawmakers have fled the state and neglected their duties. Time for some people to lose their jobs. What's going on in the Badger State is a disgrace. Unionized teachers have cut classes to protest at the Capitol and resorted to fake doctors' excuses to get away with their truancy. Some educators have placed their students in the demonstrations. State and local workers who belong to unions have also walked off their jobs to join the fracas. Meanwhile, 14 Democratic state senators who don't belong to organized labor but who with one exception are owned by unions have run off to Illinois so the state Senate can't vote on a bill they don't like. As those Democrats ignored their constitutional duties a state away, that bill was passed early Friday in the Assembly where a mob of adults wearing orange T-shirts and acting like spoiled children chanted "shame, shame, shame" from the floor and gallery. Anyone who's seen a video of the spectacle and has a shred of decency would be angered and embarrassed by the puerile display. The legislation, passed 51-17 after 60 hours of debate, is not an anti-union bill, as the mainstream media have labeled it. Nor is it an assault on unions, as President Obama has charged. It's simply an attempt to achieve some semblance of fiscal sanity. When Republican Gov. Scott Walker took office, Wisconsin was in deep financial trouble. The state government is facing a $137 million budget deficit this year and a $3.6 billion shortfall in the next two. So Walker proposed trimming public employees' luxury deals to bridge the gap. The only other choice would be layoffs, an option that a bloc of workers accustomed to living off of others has been unwilling to accept. Though they're being blistered by the left, Republicans who voted for the bill have nothing to be ashamed of. It merely requires public employees to pay more of their own health care and pension costs. It also strips them of most of their collective bargaining privilege, a license traditionally — and rightly — denied government workers because of the inherent conflict of interest and strain it puts on taxpayers who are gouged by the process. Wisconsin was the first state to let its public employees bargain as a group. Now, in a case of poetic justice, it's going to lead the trend in which government employees lose this privilege. If anyone should be ashamed of their behavior, it's the public-sector workers and their supporters who think they have a moral title to jobs with bloated pay and benefits provided by others. They believe it's acceptable to bully those with whom they disagree and behave like riotous rabble. They've conducted themselves in an infantile, cowardly and undignified manner. If the AWOL Democrats don't start acting like adults and return to Madison by Monday to debate and vote on the bill passed in the Assembly, they should be recalled. Should government workers, including the teachers, continue to skip work without using their legitimate time off to join the protests, they need to be fired. At some point, both groups have to acknowledge the reality of the situation and become part of the solution, not the root of the problem.

To: FJB who wrote (100631)	2/26/2011 12:06:26 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224748

No, but some may be. All the Japanese people I have interacted with have been very polite. Are you saying they are cursing me under their breath?